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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Life's Little Lessons


I remember I was in class VII, sitting alone on the last seat 'coz one of my friends had left for another school and the other was monitoring the class! Yeah she was a favorite with teachers! And suddenly i scribbled a poem called I Love, I Love...in love with birds, sweets and my school. 11 years and love has a changed meaning altogether! Well, that was my first poem.

Anyways, that time i thought I'd be a teacher. I guess every girl dreams of being one sometime or the other. While I was doing my graduation with absolutely no future plans, I was forced into an MBA coaching institute (thats because my friends were going, how could i miss the fun!). With no idea whatsoever, 2 years later I was doing MBA(all my friends who did join the coaching were not!), ready to rule the corporate world! Ah yes, between my grad and MBA i had a short stint of six months with Times of India as a freelancer. And I still wanted to do MBA! People told me why not Journalism, and i never even gave it a thought. And writer, I understood only one way of writing, and that was being a fiction writer. Height of ignorance!

While doing MBA I was the student co-ordinator of our newsletter and wrote for my college at times. I was pathetic at finance but good at marketing 'coz i could think creatively. Still, I wanted to get into finance!

I did extremely well and got a job in a bank with an awesome pay scale. But, circumstances and a few realizations made me never join that organization.

And here I am, writing a blog. Planning to start afresh and learn how to write. Write to use my talent and God's gift. I don't regret any decision that i made, if I made any that is. But strange isn't it, if I realised it 11 years back, i could have been someone else.

Hmmm....

12 comments:

  1. lol..the comments are in my orkut community...
    its the weekend right now...i don't get much readers during weekends...

    will read this one later...

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  2. Hi, I have always loved your calm and yet give it your all attitude in life. And the little that I have known you, I must say that you are like the title you got in the farwell.
    I aspire to write fiction too, but with the job, I hardly get time to pen down anything, hope you make it big though. And then I'll be able to say, hey thats my friend.

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  3. nice blog.
    cheerios!

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  4. nice blog...added to my favs!

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  5. @ jatin
    thanks a ton. well...to b very frank..i might just screw it all up!! but yeah..dream big :)
    happy writing!

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  6. Anonymous6/24/2007

    good that u came here..
    infact what u said..about coming back to writing..i do feel the same.. miss those days of splendor..but still its never late to start again isn't it...
    cheers!..will b visiting :)

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  7. Anonymous6/24/2007

    on second read of ur posts..gosh! u r good..
    linked ya

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  8. Anonymous6/24/2007

    hmmm thanx for dropping bye..punjabi..he he

    well sharing ur writing is upto u..but ther are some tools that will come handy

    try this
    http://www.copyscape.com/
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in/

    i wld love to read ur poems..thoug m myself a rookie ji..jst now i started some stupid scrambling..only used to do in hindi..

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  9. hey....came by here for the first time....
    Enjoyed what i read...
    and apart from being glad for the fact that u discovered that this is what u really want to do...u actually found the God(read:guts) in u to give everything else up and pursue it...
    kudos to u!!
    looking forward to reading ur work!!
    cheers..
    blogolled u...hope u dont mind

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  10. heye! i didnt knw ur blog is getting famous..;) loved this piece...;) coz cud feel my mention sumwhr thr....n ws soo nostalgic..n yhh ve clicked for today! ;)

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  11. @ prachi
    yeah i do remembered you while writing this piece

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  12. hmmm...always do what your heart desires..that way u come out to be the best :)

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